Hello Rosanna, Thanks for your explanations. Yes, I think it's bakelite. I'm in France. I can try to send you the beads. What is your address, please? but do you think too that, what I think "horn beads", are also bakélite? I bought all these beads on african markets: Maroua, Yaoundé in Cameroun until 2007 and Bouaké, Ivory Coast, many years ago.